Daily Republican., 1887-08-30
KRUPP, rns DEAD oUNMAKIR.

Ice, inOccu, i remember Alfred
Krupp very well," said II. w. Dram.
ger, in response TO an inquiry concern.
ing the late German gunmaker. ~
worked for him twenty years ago
While his guns are known all the
world over his labors In behalf OF his
workmen have endeared him to thou
sands. His father began the iron
works on small scale, so my father
has told me, In 1910 or thereabouts. In
1896 he died and his widow carried on
the business. 1t is her son Alfred
who built up the business to its pres
ent gigantic proportions. When
came away from Essen twenty years
ago there were eighteen hundred or
two thousand men employed In the
works. l was back there three years
|ago, and it Is safe to say that now
there are between twenty and twenty
five thousand men employed"
"How much ground do the works
coyer?'
"ln the town Of Essen more than
500 acres. Besides the concern owns
SAT iron mines in Germany alone and
another one in Spain, where the finest
ores come from. The Krupps own
several sea steamers, and around the
works in Essen are about fifty miles Of
railway. There are some thirty loco
motives and hundreds OF cars used
about the works. There are telegraph
offices and chemical laboratories, in
tact almost everything you Gun think
lof."
1.-The works are not confined TO the
manufacture of guns, are theyl"
mo, indeed; all the parts OF steam
Iengines, locomotives, axles, bridges,
rails and wheels, tires, switches,
Isprings, shafts for steamers, mint dies,
rudders lin fact, all parts of iron ma.
chinery are prepared at the works for
manufacturers, but are not combined
there. OF course the manufacture OF
guns is very large. In month they
can produce two hundred and fifty
field pieces and more than fifty can
non. There is one thing, too; he
won't sell single gun to the French.
men. He's too patriotic for that"
lyon spoke OF his kindness to bis
workmen
"Yes, it was before l came away
that he began to erect good dwelling
houses for his employees. He BULL
about $50 at first. Year after yeal
they have been added to, and when
was there three years ago there were
as many as 1900 of these family dwell
ings. in which more than 5000 in
dividuals resided. Their annual rent
was $3.50 to $45, deducted from the
wages OF the employees. Then there
have been boarding houses erected FOL
unmarried laborers, about 1000 being
thus accommodated. The cost pei
man is 20 cents day. There are su
Iperior boarding houses for the skilled
lworkmen, and in these the rent is q
cents per day. The most importan
Institution OF all is the supply store
Here everything is sold at cost.
There 10 great central building
land connected with it are 20 or NOR,
Ishops. Everything is ON rigid casi
lsystem, and nearly all the articles de
lsired by a family or individual may b.
bought-clothing, groceries and uten
Isis. There is also a brewery whicl
dispenses beer at cost price. 1t i
usual for the employe to get from hi
foreman tickets emitting him to 8
much bread or beer, and he is charge'
with them, the amount being deducte'
from his wages.
| Every day is pay day at the works
the men In one department bein
lpaid to-day, for instance, and those i
another department tomorrow BE
sides all this, Herr Krupp erected tw
Hospitals, a non.sectarian free school
six industrial schools, one for adul,
; and two for females, the fee being 8
cents a month, from which the poo
are relieved. Then, too, he built seV
eral churches. And there is also
sick and pensions fund, OF whic
every foreman and workman is r,
lquired to be member. Each con
tributes half days pay as entranc
fee and an annual fee apportioned
his wages. Physicians and surgeon
are employed on salaries, and for u
additional fee OF 81 the workman ina
secure free medical treatment for b
lwife and children. Pensions al
'paid TO men permanently disabled
1.-THE works. The highest pension
s25 month, the average being 81.
THE average pension given widows
1850 month. Herr Krupp also ST
cured at low rates arrangements wit
a number of lie insurance comp lnit
for the benefit of his men"